Stop lying over Bakhmut retreat, Wagner boss tells Kremlin
The mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has accused Russian army units of “fleeing” their positions around the battleground city of Bakhmut, even as Moscow insisted there had been no Ukrainian breakthrough.
“This is not called regrouping, this is fleeing,” Prigozhin said in an audio statement on social media, after the Russian defence ministry claimed that it was redeploying troops to establish stronger defensive positions.
Defence ministry units “simply went fleeing” from positions around the north and south of the city, Prigozhin, said in a separate video address. “The flanks are failing. The front is collapsing,” said the businessman, also known as Putin’s Chef for his company’s Kremlin catering contracts. He added: “Attempts by the defence ministry in the information field to sugarcoat the situation — it’s
